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Escalating Trade War with China Will Increase Damage to American Soybean Farmers
2018-09-27
The Administration’s decision to impose 10 percent tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese imports—and China’s subsequent retaliation on $60 billion of U.S. products—deepens and prolongs the trade war between the two countries, posing even more adverse consequences for A...
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INSIGHT: Biopesticides to Feed a Growing and Hungry World
2018-09-27
Whether it is in China, Guatemala, Brazil, Europe, or the U.S., consumers, and especially young people, want more information and transparency about how crops are grown and how their food is produced.Food companies are taking notice, and efforts such as the Field to Market initia...
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GMO cotton prompts dramatic drop in China’s pesticide use
2018-09-21
By Mark LynasChina has experienced large and sustained reductions in pesticide use as a result of adopting GMO cotton, according to the largest-ever scientific study on the impacts of Bt cotton use in that country.Although Bt was only targeting the cotton bollworm, the subsequent...
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China is making its vegetables grow bigger, faster and stronger ... using electricity
2018-09-21
Lettuce growing in an electro culture chamber developed as part of China’s giant experiment to find out if electricity can boost plant growth. Photo: Liu Binjiang?Chinese growers have the answer to a question that has been baffling scientists for three centuries: Can electricity ...
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Price & Supply: pesticide technical and intermediate production at low load
2018-09-21
The Central government organized an environmental regulatory compliance inspection which has continued nationwide in China, leading to continued shutdown of chemical parks in China. ?No timeline has been published for the resumption of operation of chemical parks in North Jiangsu...
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Global biostimulant market overview - China will be the main battlefield for biostimulants
2018-09-17
Part of this article is selected from the report “Global Biostimulant Market Overview and Market Development Strategy” by Roger Tripathi, the CEO and Co-founder of Global BioAg Linkages in the?2018 China-overseas Biopesticide & Biostimulant Exchange Congress (BioEx 2018)?organize...
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China’s Jiangsu Province announces pesticide production restriction, phasing out and prohibition pol...
2018-09-12
Recently, Jiangsu Province released an industry catalogue specifying regulations over the restriction, phasing out and prohibition of pesticide production. The catalogue included the restriction of a number of pesticide production facilities, pesticide products to be phased out a...
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This August, the price of 70% of chemical raw materials in China surged, price rise still expected
2018-09-12
BackgroundChina’s second round of an environmental compliance inspection has continued to progress;A large number of enterprises are being shut down, restricted and rectified;On August 23, China and the US raised chemical product tariffs on each other;A violent typhoon caused the...
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Jiangsu China: 1,000 non-compliant chemical works to be shut down in 3 years
2018-09-12
On September 4, the Jiangsu Provincial Government held a press conference to announce the shutdown of 1,000 chemical works, which were not environmentally compliant and had safety issues, in the next three years. According to information, the chances of opening new chemical proje...
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American Seed Trade Association requests exemptions for seeds on proposed Chinese tariffs list
2018-09-12
The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) is requesting that seeds for sowing be exempted from the proposed list of supplemental retaliatory tariffs on China under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. The request was made yesterday in a?formal letter?to U.S. Trade Representativ...